Stock Characters Speaking: Eight Libanian Declamations Introduced and Translated by Penella, Robert
Stock Characters Speaking: Eight Libanian Declamations Introduced and Translated by Penella, Robert

Stock Characters Speaking: Eight Libanian Declamations Introduced and Translated

Declamations were composed and orally delivered in the Roman Empire by sophists, or teachers of rhetoric, of...
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Stock Characters Speaking: Eight Libanian Declamations Introduced and Translated by Penella, Robert

Stock Characters Speaking: Eight Libanian Declamations Introduced and Translated

$264.25
Stock Characters Speaking: Eight Libanian Declamations Introduced and Translated by Penella, Robert

Stock Characters Speaking: Eight Libanian Declamations Introduced and Translated

$264.25
Author: Robert Penella
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Declamations were composed and orally delivered in the Roman Empire by sophists, or teachers of rhetoric, of whom the Greek-speaking Libanius was one of the most distinguished. Stock Characters Speaking may be thought of as emerging from three developments of recent decades: an explosive interest in late antiquity, a newly sympathetic interest in rhetoric (including ancient declamation), and a desire to bring Libanius's massive corpus into English and other modern languages.

In this book, author Robert J. Penella translates eight of Libanius's declamations: 29, 30, 34, 35, 37, 45, 46, 47, and, in an appendix, the thirteenth-century Gregory of Cyprus's response to Declamation 34. Each translation is accompanied by an introduction, in which Penella examines the themes, structure, and the stasis, or key issue, of the declamations. Figures who appear in the translated declamations include a parasite who has lost his patron, a man envious of his rich neighbor, a miser's son, a poor man willing to die for his city, a rich war-hero accused of aiming at tyranny, and a convict asking for exile. Three of these declamations have appeared in German; otherwise, these translations are the first into a modern language.

Author: Robert Penella
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 01/09/2023
Pages: 168
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780472133338

About the Author
Robert J. Penella is Emeritus Professor of Classics, Fordham University.
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